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We summarize the week's scientific breakthroughs every Thursday.
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LifeLife
Food-storing tayras, stay-at-home finch dads and ant sex scandals in this week's news.
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LifeGenes & Cells
Genes for butterfly wings and maintaining maleness, plus turtles meet their lizard relatives and more in this week’s news.
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LifeA tryst, then the power to resist
House mice in Europe got some of their tolerance for rodenticides from hybridizing with a completely different species
By Susan Milius -
LifeThe lion eats tonight …
Attacks on humans peak after a full moon, when feline bellies tend to rumble.
By Nadia Drake -
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LifeLife
Slacker fish, carnivorous pitfalls, a dinosaur gap and more in this week’s news.
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LifeGenes & Cells
Human livers implanted in mice, plus new eye of newt, the potato genome and more in this week’s news.
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AnimalsBaboon bosses get stressed for success
In the wild, the most powerful males reign tensely.
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LifeOil spill didn’t hurt seagrass-dwelling juvenile fish
Long-term effects of early exposure to hydrocarbons remains unknown.
By Janet Raloff -
LifeLearnin’ lizards
Underrated reptiles figure out what to do when the old rules change.
By Susan Milius -
LifeGenes & Cells
Chromosomal risks of fertility treatment, vitamin A for vaccines and clues to brain cancer in this week's news.
By Science News